252 MISCELLANEOUS N0TE8. 



basal length 116: greatest length of upper sectorial 17 ; greatest cranial 

 breadth 52. o : zygomatic breadth 77 ; least inter-orbital breadth 

 19.5 mm. 



l^oth the skull and bod}' measurements are smaller than those 

 recorded b}' Blant'ord for Nepal, thousrh this animal appeared to be 

 fully mature. Tiie colouring was as follows: — nose dirty pink; lips 

 and pads liver brown ; body and tail dark chestnut brown, the tail 

 bt'ing white beneath. There are a few light stripes on the liead, and 

 the chin is white. Whiskers white, black basally. 



It is almost certain that this is the animal known to the Siamese 

 as the '■ Sena fai " or Fire-cat. Though few have seen it. it is general!}' 

 alleged to be very fierce and a match for the tiger. 



K. G. G.UHDNKR, r.M.z s. 

 March. 1917. 



No. III. A New Bandicoot from Siam. 



By OLni'iEiJ) TnoM.v.'i. 



(R.^prinfod fiT.1,1 .loiini. Bonihay N. 11. S., XXIV, p. 642). 



Bandicota mordiKr, sp. n. 



Near B. nemorivci(/a but with large teeth. 



Size about as in B. nemoriritiia. or, since the type is not full 

 grown, perhaps averaging larger. Fur of the posterior back more 

 profusely mi.ved with long blackish bristles, so that the colour is 

 consequently darker than in ufiiioriviuja. and the general ajijjearance 

 is more like that found in the (jiijiintca group. I'nder .surface slaty 

 grey, less broadly washed with whitish than in neinorir<uja. Hands 

 brown with whitish digits, feet whollj' brown. 



Sktdl apparently quite as in 'iiemorirariri ; supraorbital lidges not 

 j'et so developed in the type ; pal.ital foramina narrowed posteriori}'. 



Molars large and heavy, their breadtli markedly greater than in 

 the allied species. 



Dimensions of the type, measured in the flesh by Mr. Lyle : — 

 Head and body 228 mm. ; tail 2.10 ; hindfoot 52 ; ear 31. Skull : — 

 Condylo-incisive length 55-3 : zygomatic breadth 8(1 : nasals 21 x (i'S ; 

 interorbital breadth 7' 1 ; breadth between I'idges on parietals 12'4 ; 

 palatilar length 30: palatal foramina 11; upper molars series 10 S ; 

 breadth of m' 3-8. 



Uiih. — Northern Siam. Tvpe from Chiengmai. Alt. odti m. 



7'///"".— Vonng adult female. B. .M. No. 0.10.1 1.2 1. Original 

 number 249. Collected 25th April 190S and presented by Th. II. 

 J.yle, I'Isq. 



The breadth of the first molai' in our considerable series of /.'. 

 'iiPiiUiTirmin never exceeds 3-4 m. 



JOT'HX. N.VT. IlI.SiT. SOC. .«IAM. 



